Overview
- A 21-year-old man from Wakefield pleaded guilty to making threats to kill to two Manchester mosques and was sentenced to 28 months at Leeds Crown Court.
- Prosecutors say the anonymous calls were made in anger over a deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue two days earlier and included direct threats such as “I’m going to come to your mosque and kill you.”
- West Yorkshire Police attended the defendant’s address hours after the calls and seized his mobile phone, with investigators later finding Islamophobic and racist messages used as evidence.
- The CPS applied a hate-crime uplift that added 10 months to the sentence because the offences were aggravated by hostility toward a religious group.
- Prosecutors said the case is meant to deter retaliatory, religion-based threats and to reassure communities that violent or intimidating communications will be treated seriously by the courts.